Thanks. I thought it seemed too easy to be true... Then my unqualified answer to the question would be "no". Absolutely not. Absolute, objective ethics is a tough one to argue. So perhaps I'd lean more on the law of physics rather than metaphysics.
That’s called “jumping the hypothetical” in Socratic reasoning. You have to answer the question as posed. Do you kill Baby Hitler? That’s the hypo. And then the answer, whatever it is, leads to more questions. Socratic Method.https://twitter.com/EuclidAcademy/status/1086461169060085760 …
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I teach all my students through this method. Critical thinking is a life skill.
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Exactly right ^^^^^^
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"Socratic Torture," quoth a veteran of '70's law school.
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Ideally, you would go back and kill John Maynard Keynes and allow somebody who wasn't the main cheerleader of WWII to be the guy negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. Then the Weimar Republic wouldn't have collapsed so dramatically creating the power vacuum Hitler filled
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No. We are not God. We can’t punish before the crime.
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Why did u say buzzfeed reporter was one of the best? Weak.
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Would interrupting his parents' love making be killing him?
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60 million killed by Hitler, is there some new tallies found that account for that sort of discrepancy?
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That figure likely comes from the estimated total casualties of the second World war, both military and civilian, which is believed to be around 50 to 60 million.
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My answer is no. I don't kill babies.
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I’d let him live and then nominate him to the House Foreign Affairs Committee
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